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Radio is a 2003 American biographical sports drama film directed by Mike Tollin, who also produced with Herb Gains and Brian Robbins. It was inspired by the 1996 Sports Illustrated article "Someone to Lean On" by Gary Smith. [1][2] The article and the movie are based on the true story of T. L. Hanna High School football coach Harold Jones (Ed ...
West Islip, New York, U.S. Occupation (s) Actor, comedian. Years active. 1972–2002. Calvert Grant DeForest (July 23, 1921 – March 19, 2007), also known by his character name Larry " Bud " Melman, was an American actor and comedian, best known for his appearances on Late Night with David Letterman and Late Show with David Letterman.
Jail Bait was his swan song, as Rawlinson died from lung cancer the night after the film completed shooting. [5] [6] [7] This was also famed model and radio star Theodora Thurman's only motion picture credit, as she entered a career in radio soon after the film was made. [8] The performance of Cotton Watts in some film prints was not filmed by ...
The Terminal is a 2004 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Stanley Tucci.The film is about an Eastern European man who is stuck in New York's John F. Kennedy Airport terminal when he is denied entry to the United States, but is unable to return to his native country because of a military coup.
Budget. US$1.3 million. The Celebration (Danish: Festen) is a 1998 Danish black comedy - drama film directed by Thomas Vinterberg and produced by Nimbus Film. It tells the story of a family gathering to celebrate their patriarch's 60th birthday, during which a family secret is revealed. Vinterberg's inspiration for the film, which he wrote with ...
Radio Days. Radio Days is a 1987 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. It is a nostalgic look at the golden age of radio during the late 1930s and 1940s, focusing on a working-class family living in Rockaway Beach, New York. The film weaves together various vignettes, blending the lives of the family members with the ...
[23] The film won the Grand Prix at the 1967 Knokke-Le-Zoute Experimental Film Festival in Knokke, Belgium. [45] Film Culture magazine presented Snow its 1967 Independent Film Award. [46] In a 1968 Film Quarterly review, Jud Yalkut describes Wavelength as "at once one of the simplest and one of the most complex films ever conceived."
Budget. $6 million [1] Box office. $28 million [2] Slap Shot is a 1977 American sports comedy film directed by George Roy Hill, written by Nancy Dowd, and starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean. It depicts a minor league ice hockey team that resorts to violent play to gain popularity in a factory town in decline.